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Cannot print conntents of IFrame in CRM 4.0

Hi all;
I'm using MSCRM4.0 and I've created an Iframe that refers to another html page that then brings up a map of where our customer is - as per the following article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/08/01/adding-live-maps-to-microsoft-crm-3-0.aspx

The iFrame and map works a treat and brings up more or less any address in the UK. However, when I go to the "print" button on the account window and the preview is generated I just get an empty window along with all the other account info printed. I've tried just adding a print button with script to the html page. This works kinda, in that the map prints but I also get numerous script errors such as:

Line 38 Char 1 LOCID_UI_DIR undefined

Line 174 Char 1 Object expected

Line 115 1 _bPresenceEnabled is undefined

These errors appear to come from the following page:
sfa/accts/edit.aspx?id={GUID of account is here}

My current print "fix" is using a print.js file as follows:
if ( printIsNativeSupport() )
window.print2 = window.print;
window.print = printFrame;

// main stuff
function printFrame(frame, onfinish) {
if ( !frame ) frame = window;

function execOnFinish() {
switch ( typeof(onfinish) ) {
case "string": execScript(onfinish); break;
case "function": onfinish();
}
if ( focused && !focused.disabled ) focused.focus();
}

if ( frame.document.readyState !== "complete" &&
!confirm("The document to print is not downloaded yet! Continue with printing?") )
{
execOnFinish();
return;
}

if ( window.print2 ) { // IE5
var focused = document.activeElement;
frame.focus();
if ( frame.print2 ) frame.print2();
else frame.print();
execOnFinish();
return;
}

var eventScope = printGetEventScope(frame);
var focused = document.activeElement;

window.printHelper = function() {
execScript("on error resume next: printWB.ExecWB 6, 1", "VBScript");
printFireEvent(frame, eventScope, "onafterprint");
printWB.outerHTML = "";
execOnFinish();
window.printHelper = null;
}

document.body.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeEnd",
"<object id=\"printWB\" width=0 height=0 \
classid=\"clsid:8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2\">");

printFireEvent(frame, eventScope, "onbeforeprint");
frame.focus();
window.printHelper = printHelper;
setTimeout("window.printHelper()", 0);
}

// helpers
function printIsNativeSupport() {
var agent = window.navigator.userAgent;
var i = agent.indexOf("MSIE ")+5;
return parseInt(agent.substr(i)) >= 5 && agent.indexOf("5.0b1") < 0;
}

function printFireEvent(frame, obj, name) {
var handler = obj[name];
switch ( typeof(handler) ) {
case "string": frame.execScript(handler); break;
case "function": handler();
}
}

function printGetEventScope(frame) {
var frameset = frame.document.all.tags("FRAMESET");
if ( frameset.length ) return frameset[0];
return frame.document.body;
}

And my HTML page is this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title></title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

<script type="text/jscript" src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1" mce_src="http://dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.1"></script>

      <script type="jscript" src="print.js"></script>
<script type="text/jscript">
function window.onload() {
idPrint.disabled = false;
}

var originalTitle;
function beforeprint() {
idPrint.disabled = true;
originalTitle = document.title;
document.title = originalTitle + " - by Baseline Consultancy";
}

function afterprint() {
document.title = originalTitle;
idPrint.disabled = false;
}

</script>

<script type="text/jscript">

var map = null;
var Address = "";
var latitude = null;
var longitude = null;
function GetMap()

{
// Try to get lat&long from the CRM

latitude = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_latitude.DataValue;

longitude = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_longitude.DataValue;

//Get adress from CRM
var addressline1 = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_line1.DataValue;
var city = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_city.DataValue;
var County = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_stateorprovince.DataValue;
var PostCode = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_postalcode.DataValue;
var Country = parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_country.DataValue;

if (Country == null)
{
Country = "United Kingdom"
}

if (PostCode == null)
{
alert ("You must have a value for the Postcode in order to map the address, better still ensure you have the correct full address for a more accurate mapping!");
}

      Address = addressline1+", "+city+", "+County+", "+PostCode+","+Country;

map = new VEMap('myMap');

map.LoadMap();
if (latitude != null && longitude != null)

{

PlacePushPin(latitude,longitude);

}

else

{

map.Find(null,Address,null,null,0,10,true,true,true,true,FindCallBack);

}

}

function FindCallBack(shapeLayer, results, positions, moreResults, e)

{

if(positions != null && positions.length > 0)

{

PlacePushPin(positions[0].LatLong.Latitude,positions[0].LatLong.Longitude);

latitude = positions[0].LatLong.Latitude;

longitude = positions[0].LatLong.Longitude;

parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_latitude.DataValue = latitude;

parent.document.forms[0].all.address1_longitude.DataValue = longitude;




}

}

function PlacePushPin(lat, lon)

{

latlong = new VELatLong(lat,lon);

customerPushPin = new VEShape(VEShapeType.Pushpin,latlong);

map.AddShape(customerPushPin);

map.SetCenterAndZoom(latlong,15);

}

</script>

</head>

<body onload="GetMap();">
<onbeforeprint="beforeprint()"onafterprint="afterprint()" bgcolor="infobackground">
<p><input name="idPrint" type="button" value="Print this page" onclick="print()"/> </p>

<div id='myMap' style="position:relative; width:600px; height:600px;"></div>

</body>

</html>

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me crazy!
Thanks
MM

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Lucas

MindenMan, care to share how you solved it? EE is such a pain, i just wasted my freebie on this post where you put "I've solved this myself."